Alaina Lopez, M.S., LPC-S, CART, RPT
Founder of Heart To Heart Counseling Services, LLC. Alaina Sanderson Lopez is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Anger Resolution Therapist, and Registered Play Therapist. Alaina has over twenty years of experience working with children, adolescents, young adults, and families. Alaina believes therapy can help us identify our strengths and personal successes for ourselves, as well as, our children. Therapy is an investment in the personal growth and well being of an individual. Alaina strives to provide a warm, trusting, open, and supportive relationship for her clients. The therapeutic relationship is a partnership between the client and the therapist, and is based on trust, and respect to achieve the client’s goal.
My approach is eclectic. It incorporates elements of mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative, acceptance, and commitment, emotionally focused, and positive therapy approaches. Utilizing these approaches we will learn to understand the past so we can understand how you were impacted by the past currently to create a healthy future.
Areas of Specialization
Anger Management • Personal Growth • Play Therapy • Depression • Parenting Skills • ADHD/ADD • Stress Management • Foster Parenting • Coping Skills • Anxiety • Bipolar • Couples Counseling, Building Health Relationships *Social Phobia *Work life Balance * Feeling emotionally neglected from parents* Life Coaching
Tiffany Martin, M.S., LPC, CCTP
Tiffany Martin is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She enjoys working with children, adolescents, and young adults. Tiffany has over seven years of experience working with children as an elementary school teacher.
She became an educator because of her desire to positively impact the lives of many children. Tiffany shares this same sentiment towards therapy. Tiffany believes that by providing a sincere, trusting, and nonjudgmental relationship with her clients, we can build a relationship that will help the client achieve their goal. Personal growth is the goal, and therapy is a positive tool that assists us to identify our strengths, personal success, and he areas where we could benefit from growth.
Areas of Specialization
Personal Growth, Play Therapy, ADHD/ADD, Behavioral/Disruptive Disorders, Coping Skills, Anxiety, Anger Management
Annastasia Vincent, University of Houston-Victoria Graduate Intern, M.A.
Annastasia is currently a Graduate Intern Student in the University of Houston-Victoria’s Counseling Program. She is on track to earn a Master of Education in Clinical Mental Health Counseling by May of 2022. She received her Bachelor of Science in Teaching and Learning through the University of Houston, where she studied early childhood development. For ten years, she has passionately served as an elementary teacher, working to educate children academically, socially, and emotionally. Her education and experiences have equipped her to work closely alongside families and children with a variety of needs and concerns.
Anna believes in the power of a warm, trusting, and professional partnership. She understands that everyone is unique in their background, experiences, personalities, strengths, weaknesses, and life journey. It is through the therapeutic partnership that she works closely to assist her clients in developing goals that are aimed to promote emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual growth and wellness.
Anna adheres to an eclectic approach to counseling. Depending on the client and their needs, she combines various techniques including cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, solution-focused therapy, narrative acceptance, positive therapy, and play therapy for young children.
Claudine Kirby, LPC-Associate
Claudine holds a Masters in Clinical Counseling with knowledge of behavioral and therapeutic interventions. She has experience in crisis interventions, motivational interviewing, family systems and care coordination. Claudine’s primarily focuses on overall health and well-being: by providing insight into how the mind and body affect symptom presentations. She also works to provide insight and understanding of how behavioral patterns and subconscious choices can be challenged to lead a healthier lifestyle.
Meredith Villafana, Business Operations Manager
Meredith joined our practice in 2018 and is a contractor for behavioral health practitioners. She studied business and accounting. She has extensive experience in credentialing and billing. Her creativity, entrepreneurial and leadership skills have greatly contributed to the expansion and success of the practice. Meredith coordinates patient-relation functions, business operations, other collaborative business efforts. Her passion and awareness for the mental health industry are a perfect match for this practice representing and innovative, forefront organization.
Nyree Walker Pringle, Lamar University Graduate Intern M.A.
Education in Marriage Couple and Family Counseling
Expected Graduation Date December 2021
Currently, Nyree is a Lamar University Graduate Intern. In addition, she is a highly dedicated educator of 22 years in nurturing students and families, while helping and empowering youth to build the confidence, knowledge, and wisdom to become their best selves. As an aspiring marriage, couple, and family therapist, Nyree possesses a multicultural competence, knowledge, and awareness coupled with a passion for learning. In essence, Nyree prides herself on her commitment as an advocate for the positive cultivation, academic, and social and emotional development that enriches the lives of people from all walks of life.
Dr. Nneka Nnadozie
Dr. Nneka Nnadozie is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Texas. She received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from The California School of Professional Psychology in Sacramento, CA in 2015, where she obtained specialized training in forensic psychology. She became passionate about working with sex trafficking victims and survivors while conducting her dissertation research on adult prostituted women. She continues her work with sex trafficking victims by providing individual and group psychotherapy to youth survivors and their caregivers. Dr. Nnadozie also developed and implemented a versatile and interactive curriculum for preventing child sexual exploitation. The curriculum, Standing for and Achieving Youth Empowerment (S.A.Y.E.), is a fundamental prevention program for youth who are at-risk for being trafficked, and it can be taught to qualified mental health professionals in diverse settings. Dr. Nnadozie is the owner and founder of 360 Therapy & Psychological Services, LLC where she uses a trauma-informed approach for both psychotherapy and psychological evaluations. She focuses on helping youth and adults become aware of how their trauma history affects the mind and body, and in essence hinders their mental and physical wellbeing. She is passionate about providing developmentally appropriate and culturally competent trauma-informed therapy and psychological services to children, adolescents, and adults. She is also impassioned about helping clients advocate for themselves and transform from trauma victims to survivors. More personally, Dr. Nnadozie is a native Houstonian and enjoys reading, shoe shopping, exploring different restaurants, and traveling in her free time.
Mr. Nicholas Lopez, M.Ed.
Nicholas Lopez is an educator of 21 years having attended Texas Southern University for both undergraduate and graduate school. Lopez was drafted in the 5th round of the 1997 NFL draft to the Miami Dolphins. He later became a juvenile detention officer with Harris County and held this role of juvenile detention officer for three years. In 2001 Nicholas began teaching middle school ESL Reading, where he also coached football and was a mentor teacher. His experience working in an at-risk campus led him to pursue his Anger Management certification. After eight years at his first teaching assignment, he transitioned to another middle school through the Talent Transfer Initiative. During that time at his second teaching assignment, he served in many instructional roles, coaching football/cross country; taking leadership roles as LPAC chairperson and Behavior Interventionist. In 2015 Nicholas transitioned to his third middle school which led the district with discipline referrals and the following year showed a 54% decrease with discipline referrals. The academic performance saw gains each year also receiving gold and platinum awards for Family Engagement. With 24 years of working with children, particularly at-risk youth give him the experience to coach individuals on behaviors or perceptions that prevent people from communicating effectively. He is skilled at bringing awareness to attitudinal barriers to communication that result from personality conflicts, poor management, resistance to change or lack of motivation.
Simrah Wasim, University of Houston-Clear Lake Practicum Student
Simrah is currently a Graduate Student in the University of Houston-Clear Lake’s Mental Health Counseling Program. She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Houston in Human Development and Family Studies with a Minor in Education. She enjoys working with people of all ages but especially children. It is a passion of hers to not only advocate for counseling but make sure that people are receiving the correct resources best altered to them. Therapy helps enrich people’s lives and produce personal growth. This is usually created from a warm, comforting, and trusting relationship with the counselor. She understands that every individual has their own story, background, and life journey. She wants to use people’s differences and embrace who they are with positive therapeutic methods.
My approach to counseling is eclectic. Since each client is unique, various methods are involved to get closer to achieving those goals. A few of the methods that I would like to incorporate are cognitive-behavioral therapy, play therapy, and person-centered therapy. I believe in multicultural awareness and am fluent in Urdu. I believe that counseling is the healthiest way to create and maintain positive mental health.
Coutney Warncke, MA, LMFT
Courtney obtained her Master of Social Work degree, with a specialization in children and families from The University of Texas at Arlington. She understands that we all have challenges and hardships to overcome in life, and she is open to clients from all backgrounds and respects the views of each individual client. She has experience working with children, adolescents, and young adults. She has great [personal] knowledge of disabilities, crisis and trauma, and how it can both positively or negatively impact a person, depending on what support and if the correct resources are provided. She believes that she has a deeper understanding of how the correct level of support can positively impact a situation and the healing process. She is confident that she can use her personal experiences and what she has learned to help someone else to grow and heal.
Courtney has experience in adapting to change and building resilience, which can help in empowerment and a more sense of security. Courtney seeking to provide clients with a safe, supportive and comfortable atmosphere is a big motivation and must for her. Reminding the client that he or she is the expert in their story will help her to better understand the situation. Courtney holds an attitude that is unbiased and nonjudge mental knowing that sometimes all that is needed is a listening ear, which can work to build a relationship of mutual respect and understanding. Courtney is empathetic, while providing critical thinking. Courtney is family-oriented and works to emphasize the strong role that each member plays in the family and how this can affect a person’s growth, development, support and healing. Courtney works to improve a person’s mental health status, overall well-being and happiness. By having a strong, positive relationship with her client, they will work together to process and achieve the goals that were set.
Areas of Specialization: Children & Families, Personal Growth, Coping Skills, Acceptance, Forgiveness, and Healing
